Doris Grumbach

Doris Grumbach
BornDoris M. Isaac
(1918-07-12)July 12, 1918
New York City, U.S.
DiedNovember 4, 2022(2022-11-04) (aged 104)
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • memoirist
  • biographer
  • professor
  • bookstore owner
Alma materWashington Square College of New York University
Cornell University
Spouse
Leonard Grumbach
(m. 1941; div. 1972)
PartnerSybil Pike (1972–2021; her death)[1]
Children4

Doris M. Grumbach (née Isaac; July 12, 1918 – November 4, 2022) was an American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist. She taught at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and American University in Washington, D.C., and was literary editor of The New Republic for several years. She published many novels highlighting and focusing on gay and lesbian characters. For two decades, she and her partner, Sybil Pike, operated a bookstore, Wayward Books, in Sargentville, Maine.[2]

  1. ^ ChesterCounty: Obituaries for March 29
  2. ^ "Happy 100th Birthday to Memoirist, Author, Professor, and NPR Contributor Doris Grumbach". Archived from the original on September 24, 2020. Retrieved December 5, 2020.